Cup Runneth over online.Online metrics firm ComScore Networks has released an analysis of FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f World Cup Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. during the third week of the tournament. The record day up to that time was Thursday, June 22, when 5.3 million unique visitors from more than 35 countries came to the World Cup site, which is hosted by Yahoo Inc. at fifaworldcup.yahoo.com. The site had nearly 290 million page views for the day. In addition, comScore reported increased traffic levels at major Web portals with World Cup content such as MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. . The driving force for those numbers was the final games in Group E, which included the United States, Italy, Ghana and the Czech Republic. Despite its eventual loss to Ghana,. page views from the U.S. jumped to 144 million on Thursday compared to an average of 61 million for the rest of the week. |
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